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Memoir of a Place

Assignment #1: Read and write about a significant place


 * A. Guiding Questions:**
 * 1) What place is so special to you that when you go there you feel comforted, energized, relaxed?
 * 2) What do you see, feel, hear, smell, and taste when you observe your place?


 * B. Make a list of familiar places** you like to go, places you go to regularly, places you can stand in and look at everything around you.

C. From the list, pick the place you know best. **Create a web** with the name of the place in the center. Then step into that place and list everything you see, feel, hear, smell, and taste.

D. **Read the following mentor texts**:



[|Memoir--Place--Metamorphosis]

E. Use the ideas you gleaned from the mentor texts and your web to **draft an essay describing your favorite place**.

F. **Revise your piece** to include a variety of craft techniques including complex and compound sentences and figurative language.

G. Type your final piece, complete your endnotes:, and staple together with the rubric.